Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s

Taking into account romantic comedy's current popularity and the genre's adaptability to changing historical circumstances, as well as its powerful tendency to contain and assimilate social changes, this book explores the complex ways in which recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy. Focusing on a wide range of well-known films (including Working Girl, Murphy's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748608850
• ISBN13: 9780748608850
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Worth reading couple of times, but only if you are REALLY

interested in this particular subject. This book does talk about romance in Hollywood comedies of 80's and 90's. Sometimes parallels are drawn with the older films. All argumemnts are based on classical film theory. Interesting book, but not the most essential on the subject+ too expensive, in my opinion.